Academic Background: A.A. from Dickinson State University in 2005, B.A. in Communication from Dickinson State University in 2006, College Teaching Certificate from North Dakota State University in 2007, M.A. in Speech Communication from North Dakota State University in 2008, additional classes in Institutional Analysis from North Dakota State University

Career historyGraduate Teaching Assistant at NDSU from 2006-2008. Taught Persuasive Speaking and Fundamentals of Public Speaking while at NDSU. Taught at Dickinson State University from 2008-2010. Courses included Fundamentals of Public Speaking, Coaching Forensics, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Persuasion, Argumentation, and Organizational Communication. Head Speech Coach at Dickinson High School for the 2009-2010 school year. AT WSC, lead groups of students overseas to: China in 2011, Norway in 2013. We are going to Italy in 2015. Also lead the short stay program with Kokusai Junior College in Tokyo Japan in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

Member of: National Communication Association, Central States Communication Association, Communication, Speech and Theatre Association of North Dakota

Favorite reading list: The Last Lecture, Marley and Me, Eat, Pray, Love, Mistaken Identity, Art of Racing in the Rain, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest

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